Nick-Danger

[quote who="BlackRainZ" reply="58" id="2852144"]Nick, why don't you mind your own business?[/quote]The measure of whether advice is valid is whether the offerer follows their own advice. If replying to his unspecified accusation isn't my business, then my reply to him isn't yours. Thus you're not following your own advice. Nicely done! [quote]You are derailing the thread, if you want to talk to him about this then send a private message.[/quote]Again, you're doin

[quote who="Heavenfall" reply="14" id="2852122"]...What is there to stop this deteriorating into another case of "spawn a city every 5 tiles apart" aka city-spam?[/quote]There's several ways to handle city spam -- spacing limits (as we already have), pop limits, increasing cost of founding cities (vs outposts which wouldn't affect said cost, as long as they remain outposts), increasing maintenance costs (increasing bureaucracy required for increasing empire size), etc. There's no need

Add me to the 'Great idea!' list. In early beta we could place lumberyards in woods, kinda along the lines of your suggestion. This was removed. We could also place numerous gardens to grow food (but not limited to certain terrains like you suggest), again, removed (but now 1 garden per city). Having city layout be more attuned to the landscape would greatly increase immersion and the feeling that we're recreating a real, living world.

[quote who="Marks1381" reply="5" id="2852080"]...My biggest thing with the Quests is that they're kind of weak. Their should be rare lvl 1, 2, 3, 4, ect. Quests that offer more than potions and consumables.. Picking up a staff, sword or spear that's not magical is kind of shallow... [/quote]Agreed. Getting a normal padded greaves or a normal spear from a lvl 2 chest or equipment pile is like a kid getting socks for Christmas. It shouldn't be too hard to modify the loot table to

[quote who="LujanD" reply="54" id="2851794"]Nick-Danger, is it really for the sake of courtesy, or to sate your own curiosity?[/quote]Regarding curiosity -- I'm curious as to who you think was being spiteful, as I saw nothing that fit that insult. Regarding courtesy -- if one is going to accuse someone of spitefulness, it is courteous to have the nads to stand behind it by specifying who/what. That courtesy allows others to judge the merits of your accusation, and prevents those

These crashes are less frequent (every few hours now, instead of every half hour), not sure why, but they still are occurring. dump debug.err DxDiag-32bit <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5475789/DxDiag-64bit.txt

The Civ4 FFH2 mod's team (including Derek) had distinct factions, so I'm hoping Derek will apply that old black magic he did so well to Elemental, as time permits.

[quote who="LujanD" reply="48" id="2851127"] Quoting Aeon221, reply 45Not sure where the spite comment comes in, since I repeatedly apologized and provided massive :words: of feedback... Who said I was talking about you?[/quote]So you weren't referring to Aeon221, but who were you referring to? I'm curious, as the only thing even remotely 'spiteful' here was fearzone's comment regarding some unnamed person having never been laid. If folks are going to cast asp

A new twist to my crashes when saving is this one -- I also got an OOM error message, and there were 2 dump files created (neither had zip versions). So I started this thread instead of appending to the plain old 'crash when saving' thread, in case there's something different going on (ie -- they're related instead of unrelated and just happened to occur simultaneously). The other thread is HERE <a href="http://dl.

I didn't copy the microsoft error message specifics (drat...) but it said it was a microsoft visual runtime error, but here's the debug. I was running a virus scan at the time, dunno if that's related. There was no dump (zipped or not-zipped). no dump debug DxDiag32bit <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/

Usual (for me) windows error message crash -- had to CTL-ALT-DEL to end process. debug.err dumpZIP DxDiag32bit DxDiag64bit Dunn

Another example (note I'm only submitting every 5th or so of these). debug.err dump (no zip of this, for some strange reason -- there usually is a zip and no 'unzip' dump)

As I understand it you can use http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com/ to download a patch on another computer then apply it on your machine. You need an impulse account to get the patch, and to have purchased the game. I haven't verified this by trying it, but it may be worth checking out. EDIT I checked and you can only download the full game, not just a patch.

If you have access to a faster connection you can use that to download a patch using http://anywhere.impulsedriven.com/ (you need an impulse account and to have purchased the game) then copy the patch and use it on your computer (that has impulse installed). At least, that's how I understand it -- I haven't tried it to verify. EDIT I checked and you can only download the full game, not just a patch.

I hit end turn and the game froze up. Had to CTL-ALT-DEL to end the process. debug.err dumpZIP DxDiag32bit DxDiag64bit

No dump file. debug.err DxDiag-32bit DxDiag-64bit This is the same old same old Dx error, from TABing out and back in, that's been present since early pre-release beta. I never get this in any game/program, other than Elemental.<

Another crash-while-saving debug.err dump

Another example of crash-while-saving Dump Debug.err Between these, and getting the same when not saving, I'm crashing about once per half hour. Unprecedented, since pre-release beta began.

Just had a similar freeze while ingame. Had just reloaded from a save and was scrolling across the map (not cloth map) and game froze. Had to CTL-ALT-DEL etc. Dump Zip Debugg2.err This wasn't happening prior to 1.1 All in all 1.1 is very much improved (aside from the crashes --

1.1 is crashing when I hit "Save", ~every 30 saves or so. Happened 4 times so far. The game just stops responding (an error message is created but hidden under the Elemental screen so I have toCTL-ALT-DEL to task manager to be able to stop the Error Message Process to get control of the computer. Once that error message process is ended a windows crash message appears. This is not a CTD or blue screen of death. This didn't happen in any of the 1.09 'betas

I've seen this a few times in the latest builds. I lost no units, and the AI was down to it's last unit -- an archer. I moved adjacent to it, but could not melee it (didn't try to cast spells at it, as I had none at the time). Had to auto-resolve to end the tactical battle.

I've gotten reliable OOM crashes from restarting new games ~50 times (experimenting to see what sort of start positions are available -- I've found up to 3 shards in the starting area, or up to 3 food sources, in ~every 150 starts). I haven't included any files, as this appears to be easily reproducible (just takes a few clicks to restart with the same game parameters), if you want one let me know. Apparently something isn't clearing out after hitting 'New Game', and it just k

I'm seeing about the same (hard difficulty). Magnar had a single city (lvl 4) surrounded by mountains with only a narrow entry (dunno if he created that or not -- if he did, very cool use of Raise Mountain spell!). He sent out a stack of ~half a dozen fairly tough spearmen from his mountain fortress area just before I declared. I assumed his stack would turn around to attack my attacking stack, but it never did even though it could have engaged me before I reached his capita

[quote who="trcanberra" reply="17" id="2803329"]...Personally I am tired of being labelled a fanboy for liking the game, hardly seems civil.[/quote]Note: this reply is not directed at anyone. Definition time: fanboy = someone who supports a game regardless of the game's overall qualities (in this case, overall negative qualities). hater = someone who criticizes a game regardless of the game's overall qualities (in this case, overall positive qualities). Bo

@Annatar -- there's a time and place for everything. This thread should be a time and place for Elemental (and SD) fans to welcome in someone who'll hopefully help achieve Froggy's vision for Elemental, and help get SD back on its' feet. Please to respect that. Your purpose can hold for another day.